In The News: College of Sciences

Chemistry World

Researchers in the UK have devised a process that uses electricity to remove radioactive contaminants from irradiated nuclear graphite. The process could reduce the volume of waste from nuclear power plants that requires expensive and long-term storage.

CNN Indonesia

Researchers from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) in the United States said they had discovered an exoplanet orbiting three suns, also known as the 3rd Binary Star (Trinari).

Forbes

Planets orbit stars. Everyone knows that, but have you ever heard of a planet that orbits not two stars, but three?

Nerdist

In 1949 a team of astronomers discovered a star 1,300 light-years from Earth, at the head of Orion the Hunter. Since then, astronomers have found that the star—GW Orionis—has two stellar companions.

Science Alert

Our Solar System, with just one star in the sky, may be a bit of an oddball. Most of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy actually have at least one gravitationally bound stellar companion, meaning that two-starred worlds like Tatooine are probably not uncommon.

KSNV-TV: News 3

Two's company, three's a crowd?

Las Vegas Review Journal

“Star Wars” showed us a planet with two suns in the sky. Now a UNLV researcher and an international team are doing one better: They may have identified the first planet orbiting around three stars.

KVVU-TV: Fox 5

A discovery was recently made by UNLV astronomers 1,300 light years away from earth.

Salon

Forget about one or two sunsets — three might be possible in this solar system.

ABC News 4

Two's company, three's a crowd?

International Business Times

The existence of a circumtriple planet demonstrates that planets may form in any system, even in the most strange ways.

Space.Com

A Jupiter-sized world may be kicking up dust in the triple-star system GW Ori.